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The second novel from Eimear McBride, author of the Baileys Prize winning novel, A Girl is a Half-formed Thing

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WINNER OF THE JAMES TAIT BLACK MEMORIAL PRIZE 2017
SHORTLISTED FOR THE GOLDSMITHS PRIZE 2016
SHORTLISTED FOR THE BORD GAIS IRISH NOVEL OF THE YEAR 2016
SHORTLISTED FOR THE RSL ENCORE AWARD 2017
SHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD 2018
LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILEY´S WOMEN´S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2017
LONGLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD

The vibrant energy of 1990s London. A year of passion and discovery. The anxiety and intensity of new love.

An eighteen-year-old Irish girl arrives in London to study drama and falls violently in love with an older actor. While she is naive and thrilled by life in the big city, he is haunted by demons, and the clamorous relationship that ensues risks undoing them both. At once epic and exquisitely intimate, The Lesser Bohemians is a celebration of the dark and the light in love.

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Confirms McBride´s status as one of our major novelists . . . the life here radiates through the pages and illuminates ours. Guardian

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McBride, Eimear
Eimear McBride is the author of two novels: The Lesser Bohemians (James Tait Black Memorial Prize) and A Girl is a Half-formed Thing (Bailey´s Women´s Prize for Fiction, Irish Novel of the Year, the Goldsmiths Prize, and others). She was the inaugural creative fellow at the Beckett Research Centre, University of Reading and occasionally writes for the Guardian, TLS, New Statesman and the Irish Times.

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